"I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." - Charles Babbage

"Freedom is always the freedom of the dissenter" - Rosa Luxemburg"The first rule of the Dunning-Kruger club is you don’t know you're a member of the Dunning-Kruger club. People miss that." - David Dunning

Wow! Momo has never before been so animé! Her hair is a lot longer than it was before but Momo seems to like that; one suspects that she's always had the urge to look like a Magical Girl!

The conversation about the toxicity of the hair growth chemical is the point when we're reminded that, as well as being her girlfriend, Bubbles is Faye's thinking-brain assistance AI. Faye has as many impulse control problems as May in her own way. For example, at this point, she's being prevented from putting her head in a bucket of caustic chemicals that crystallise into hair-simulating polymer chains.

I'll cop that I was frustrated with Jeph seeming to follow a pattern he's displayed before. However now Momo has extra long hair and I think it's adorable she's delighted with her new look that she wouldn't have got without the rice incident.

Y'know, Momo's line about a newfound respect for hair just made me think of the time Delenn grew hair on Babylon 5, and she had to call Ivanova for help because she didn't know she was supposed to wash it.

Panel 4 is a huge payoff in this strip. Momo's happy little (ignorant) smile, Bubbles psyching herself up for a swing and Faye's look of horror as she tries to process what's about to happen. It all tells the joke without much in the way of exposition.

Someone over on Patreon pointed out just how amazing it is what Bubbles is about to do. To cut hair with something like a sword swing would require not only a ludicrously-sharp cutting edge, it would also require enormously high swing energy and precision following of a convex curved surface. Basically, this is less a knife cut than precision surgery done in an eye-blink!

Finally, one nice touch Jeph remembered to do: Hair is heavy in large amounts, so we loose a lot of Momo's floof because the long strands are dragging themselves out straighter.